Working around a lack of 'goto' in python

[Christian Tismer]

Rene Pijlman wrote:

> Brett:
> 
>>What are the techniques in python for simulating these algorithms without a
>>'goto' command?
> 
> 
> While we're on the subject, is there any way to simulate the 'comefrom'
> statement?

Sure. If you grab old Stackless python 1.0 with Python 2.0,
you have first class continuations, and you can make your
code come from wherever you want :-)

It *is* possible, but this was no serious proposal.  - chris

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